David Danziger

@MetamateDaz So your argument is "they've got money and others should have it" simply because the billionaires will be okay. Got it. So I'm assuming you're okay with anyone else having rights to anything you could afford to live without, right?

MacKenzie Scott divorced Jeff Bezos and got $36 billion in the divorce. She has donated $26 billion to charity since then. She’s now worth $42 billion, six billion MORE than when she started TAX THE BILLIONAIRES. THEY’LL BE FINE.

The minimum wage is meant to be the lowest wage you can live on and afford housing. So, for everyone saying "it's not meant to be that," yes, it is. That's why it's called the minimum wage.

@queenie4rmnola Hey look... She's doing funny satire. Oh wait, she's being serious. Now it's truly hilarious!!

White people don’t get to say what is or isn’t racist

@SeinfeldScholar "Nice game, pretty boy!"

FAVORITE SEINFELD GUEST PLAYING THEMSELVES *Prominent Role or Key to Story Division

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

@JVMonte2 A Passage to Bangkok by Rush youtube.com/watch?v=mixPY8…

Besides New York, what song has the name of a city in the title?

@JVMonte2 All the Way From Memphis by Mott the Hoople youtube.com/watch?v=PuMOWr…

@DrRitaDed I had assumed this was satire / parody. Yikes.

Here's an idea. Tax the rich. Anyone earning over 180k per year should get taxed at 100% No one needs to be earning that much. Redistribute the wealth.

The top 1% already pay over 40% of all federal taxes. The top 5% pay over 60% of all taxes and the top 10% pay over 70% of all taxes. You already overtax ALL OF US. "Tax the rich" really just means "we don’t want to explain why we waste your $$ every year while nothing improves."

@ewarren Leaving aside the obvious question of "Would any of those things actually get done and done well by govt with that money?", I must ask... What is it that morally / ethically makes you think it's the government's right to confiscate their money? Just because it's there?

A wealth tax on the top .15% of the richest families would generate $6.2 trillion in revenue. That could pay for: Universal childcare Millions of new homes Slashing child poverty Medicare for people aged 55+ Universal paid family leave Tuition-free community college And more.

@GenTXer2 Questions 67 & 68 youtube.com/watch?v=xu0gkH…

Let's give this band some love today: Name ONE great song by the band CHICAGO. I'll start..."Hard To Say I'm Sorry" ❤️

19th century America had virtually no welfare state, minimal regulations, and a federal government so small you could fit it in a few buildings. And what happened? The greatest economic boom in human history, with immigrants literally flooding in from around the world to participate. People weren't fleeing TO America for government handouts—they were fleeing FROM the suffocating bureaucracies of Europe to a place where you could actually build something without asking permission from seventeen different agencies. But today's intellectuals have convinced themselves that this was all some historical accident. That prosperity happens DESPITE economic freedom, not because of it. The same people who can't figure out why housing costs so much in cities with 47 different zoning boards somehow think they've improved on the formula that built the modern world.

Seen on Yahoo just now. Badgers? Those Badgers sure looked a lot like Wolverines playing, winning, and celebrating!

I'll bite... unless I'm mistaken, @elonmusk doesn't take cash comp from his companies & only takes stock comp. So his incentives are aligned with shareholders. And with respect to the "scraps divided among the thousands of other key employees", were any of those employees forced into their roles? Are they slaves? Or did they voluntarily choose to exchange the value of their labor for their particular comp package (vs. any other company or comp package)?

@StartupArchive_ And then there is Elon Fucking Musk who demanded 72% of ALL new incentive stock just for himself, the scraps to be divided among the thousands of other key employees.

Jeff Bezos explains why he didn’t take additional equity building Amazon Jeff is asked why he only paid himself $80,000 per year and never took additional equity during his tenure as CEO of Amazon. He responds: “I asked the comp committee of the board not to give me any comp. My view was I was a founder. I already owned a significant amount of the company, and I just didn’t feel good about taking more. I felt I had plenty of incentive. I owned more than 10% of the company, and earlier — before it was diluted by various things — more than 20% of the company. I just felt how could I possibly need more incentive?” Jeff continues: “Most founders own big chunks of the company. They’re more like owner-operators. The way they increase their wealth is not by getting more equity. They just want to make the equity they have more valuable. And so I just would have felt icky about it. And I’m actually very proud of that decision.” Jeff is especially proud of how much wealth he’s created for other people: “Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they’ve created for other people — instead of the Forbes list where it ranks you by your own wealth. Amazon’s market cap is $2.3 trillion today. I own about $200 billion-ish of it. So if you take $2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I’ve created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people. That should put me pretty high on some kind of list. And that’s a better list — how much wealth have you created for other people?” Video source: @nytimesevents (2024)

@FutureBlueIce @umichbball @umichhockey Go get 'em! Can't wait.

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@SenWarren So your argument is effectively, he has a lot of money (that was earned legally) and I think others should have it.... so let's go take it. Did I get that right?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@RockChartrand Bingo.

Unpopular opinion: there shouldn’t be tax rates, there should be tax amounts. If you split only federal spending evenly, it’s about $27,000 per adult per year, with roughly $3,700 of that just paying interest on past spending. That’s the actual price tag. The reason it’s hidden behind rates and brackets is simple: amounts create accountability. If every adult saw a bill for $27K, the question wouldn’t be “who should pay more,” it would be “why does this cost this much, and what am I actually getting for it?” Right now the system blurs that. Costs are diffused, benefits are emphasized, and the bill is partially pushed into the future. Amounts would force a different conversation. Not about redistribution, but about value. And that’s the part the current framing avoids.

@SenWarren Please @SenWarren, tell us more about what happens to entities that take on too much debt. Sounds dangerous.

Let's be clear: Red Lobster went bankrupt after private equity bought the chain, loaded it up with debt, and gutted it.

@RealEmirHan Love this scene.

Tom Cruise revealed he was overcome with emotion when he reunited with Val Kilmer. "I was crying. I've known Val for decades. He instantly became that character again" Tom was the one that insisted if Top Gun 2 ever happened, Val had to be in it.

@o____five @jimiuorio Can you elaborate on why the wealthy benefit exponentially more from the government? I suspect I could make a compelling argument they benefit equally or even less than average so I'm curious about the counter argument.

Honest question…the wealth tax is obviously wildly immoral and just terrible policy. For those who support it how do you justify it? Do you pretend that the ultra wealthy “stole thier money” so you have a claim in it?